Word processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation graphics, BASIC macros all in one Suite.
SoftMaker Office was designed to be an office application suite that is intented to replace the Mocrosoft Office suite.

SoftMaker Office adds two new programs and brings many important improvements to TextMaker and PlanMaker. What we have kept is the reliability, blazing speed, and userfriendliness that SoftMaker Office is known for. SoftMaker Office : Get Results Fast.

SoftMaker Office adds two new programs and brings many important improvements to TextMaker and PlanMaker. What we have kept is the reliability, blazing speed, and userfriendliness that SoftMaker Office is known for. SoftMaker Office : Get Results Fast.TextMaker, the word processor in SoftMaker Office, has been significantly overhauled. It has many new functions · large and small feature additions that make working with TextMaker easier and more effective.

Here are some key features of "TextMaker":
· Export documents to PDF format
· Perfect data exchange in SoftMaker Office ... and with other applications!
· Improved master pages
· Printer-independent line breaks and page breaks
· Reading and writing of Microsoft Word files improved yet again
· Managing stylesheets made easy
· Envelopes
· You can write BASIC macros for TextMaker with the included BasicMaker (a VBA-compatible programming language) or with any other programming language that supports OLE Automation. Learn more
· The new "Document Stats" toolbar tells you, at a glance, the number of words, characters, sentences, pages etc. in your document.
· The new print preview feature lets you control on the screen how your document will be printed.
· The new command View > Full screen hides all unnecessary parts of TextMaker's screen so that it can show you as much of possible of your document.
· You can now print multiple pages (2, 4, 6, 8, 16) on one. This saves paper and lets you create booklets with minimal effort.
· RTF and OpenDocument can be set as your default file format ·? making it easy for you to always work with your preferred file format.
· TextMaker now recognizes transparency information in pictures (PNG files: alpha channel).
· TextMaker can wrap text in irregular form around pictures, recognizing the transparent parts of images.
· In outline view, there are many new keyboard shortcuts for moving and arranging paragraphs.
· The keyboard shortcuts Ctrl PgUp and Ctrl PgDn let you quickly jump back and forth between occurrences of a search string.
· Shift F3 lets you rotate between uppercase and lowercase variants of a word: test, Test, TEST
· The Page setup dialog has been updated and now supports page borders and page shading.
· The red bar that shows text overflow in text frames can now be turned off optionally.
· If you let the mouse pointer hover over a footnote in your document, a small window shows you the content of the footnote ·? without you having to open the footnote.
· Menus and dialogs are now available in 14 languages: Englisch (US), English (UK), Spanish, Portuguese, French, NEW: Italian, German, NEW: Dutch, NEW: Bulgarian, Russian, Hungarian, Turkish, Chinese (Simplified), and Japanese

PlanMaker, the spreadsheet software in SoftMaker Office, has been updated as well. It comes with significant new functions that prove useful in your everyday work.

Here are some key features of "PlanMaker":
· Export documents to PDF format
· Perfect data exchange in SoftMaker Office ... and with other applications!
· BASIC macros with PlanMaker
· The improved Print dialog now allows quick selection of which sheets of a document to print.
· The new command View > Full screen hides all unnecessary parts of PlanMaker's screen so that it can show you as much of possible of your document.
· When you insert or edit formulas, PlanMaker optionally shows small tooltips detailing the syntax of the functions you use.
· You can now print multiple pages (2, 4, 6, 8, 16) on one. This saves paper and lets you create booklets with minimal effort.
· PlanMaker now recognizes transparency information in pictures (PNG files: alpha channel).
· Shift F3 lets you rotate between uppercase and lowercase variants of a word: test, Test, TEST
· Menus and dialogs are now available in 14 languages: Englisch (US), English (UK), Spanish, Portuguese, French, NEW: Italian, German, NEW: Dutch, NEW: Bulgarian, Russian, Hungarian, Turkish, Chinese (Simplified), and Japanese

SoftMaker Presentations is the brand-new presentation graphics program in SoftMaker Office - fully compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint, yet easier to use and much less expensive.

BasicMaker is a scripting language and environment that lets you automate recurring tasks in TextMaker and PlanMaker through the use of macros.
BasicMaker is compatible with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). It allows you to write small scripts or programs that execute commands in TextMaker and PlanMaker. If you have repetitive tasks in SoftMaker Office that you wish to automate, BasicMaker is the right tool.
Syntaxwise, BasicMaker is modeled after Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and its OLE Automation object model is a subset of Microsoft Office's. If you already have experience in macro writing with Microsoft Office, you'll be up to speed with SoftMaker Office macros in no time at all.